Moana 2 administrators Dana Ledoux Miller, Jason Hand, and David Derrick Jr. just lately spoke about turning the upcoming sequel right into a film.
On Disney Investor Day in 2020, the corporate introduced Moana: The Series, which might stream on Disney+ as a sequel to the hit 2016 film Moana. Earlier this 12 months, Disney introduced that the sequence could be repurposed right into a theatrically launched animated function movie with Aulhi’i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson confirmed to be reprising their roles as Moana and Maui.
What did the Moana 2 administrators say in regards to the change?
“I feel the place we’re so lucky is that altering it from a TV sequence to a movie simply allowed us to go greater,” mentioned Miller in an interview with ComingSoon. “We actually acquired to, we’ve got 750 unbelievable artists, and we get to allow them to shine on the large display in methods that you could’t while you’re watching it on a TV.”
When requested in regards to the craziest factor that occurred behind the scenes of the upcoming animated sequel, all three administrators concurred that the conversion from a sequence to a film was the stand-out.
“It doesn’t get a lot greater than that,” mentioned Miller.
Derrick added, “Yeah, that was loopy.”
Miller additionally teased what we may anticipate from Moana 2 and what separates it from the primary movie: “If the primary movie was about Moana reconnecting to her previous, Moana 2 is about Moana constructing a brand new future for her individuals.”
“Three years after the occasions of the primary movie, Moana receives an surprising name from her wayfinding ancestors and kinds her personal crew, reuniting together with her good friend, the demigod Maui,” reads the official synopsis. “As they journey to the far seas of Oceania to interrupt the god Nalo’s curse on the hidden island of Motufetu, which as soon as linked the individuals of the ocean, they confront previous and new foes, together with the Kakamora and underworld goddess Matangi.”
Disney’s Moana 2 releases in theaters on November 27, 2024.
